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How To Pick A Pepper
Episode 377
The chili pepper is the pride of New Mexico, but they have a problem with their beloved crop. There just aren’t enough workers to pick the peppers. P…
6 years, 4 months ago
Great Bitter Lake Association
Episode 376
A little-known bit of world history about a rag tag group of sailors stranded for years in the Suez Canal at the center of a war.
Great Bitter Lake A…
6 years, 4 months ago
Audio Guide to the Imperfections of a Perfect Masterpiece
Episode 375
To help celebrate its 60th anniversary, the Guggenheim Museum teamed up with 99% Invisible to offer visitors a guided audio experience of the museum.…
6 years, 4 months ago
Unsure Footing
Episode 374
Before 1992, the easiest way to run the time off the clock in a soccer game was just to pass the ball to the goalkeeper, who could pick the ball up, …
6 years, 4 months ago
The Kirkbride Plan
Episode 373
Today, there are more than a hundred abandoned asylums in the United States that, to many people, probably seem scary and imposing, but not so long a…
6 years, 5 months ago
The Help-Yourself City
Episode 372
There’s an idea in city planning called “informal urbanism.” Some people call it “do-it-yourself urbanism.” Informal urbanism covers all the ways p…
6 years, 5 months ago
99% Invisible presents What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law
Donald Trump took office 977 days ago, and it has been exhausting. Independent of where you are politically, I think we can all agree that the news c…
6 years, 5 months ago
Dead Cars
Episode 371
Everything in Bethel, Alaska comes in by cargo plane or barge, and even when something stops working, it’s often too expensive and too inconvenient t…
6 years, 5 months ago
The Pool and the Stream Redux
Episode 370
This is the newly updated story of a curvy, kidney-shaped swimming pool born in Northern Europe that had a huge ripple effect on popular culture in S…
6 years, 6 months ago
Wait Wait...Tell Me!
Episode 369
Waiting is something that we all do every day, but our experience of waiting, varies radically depending on the context. And it turns out that design…
6 years, 6 months ago